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Word from Department Administration
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One of the many ways to get more
cooperation between various research groups at the department,
is to have regular meetings between the groups. Several groups had such established
common research areas and new cooperation possibilities after the process we had
with working committees in the spring and a similar meeting we had in Voss in
May. There will be several similar events organized this fall: the annual Christmas party will take place on Friday, 9. December – mark this date in your calenders – where this year we will facilitate a better balance between the respective number of employees and students. There are also open seminars on chosen Fridays, as you can see in the list below. I would like to encourage all to participate in these seminars, which arealso contributing to an improved department environment, not to mention the broadening of our knowledge horizons. This Friday (October 14), Ingunn Vehus from the University of Oslo will hold a lecture on This yearÕs Nobel Prize in Physics – do show up at 14:00! Merk ogs at det er en Óstilling ledigÓ i seminarkomiteen. Geir Anton |
News and general information
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Open seminars - fall 2011 The scheduled open seminars for
this fall semester are listed below, and these seminars are arranged,
according to the good old tradition, on selected Fridays at 14:15 in
Auditorium B. The Seminar Committee is looking for suggestions on interesting
lecturers for still available Fridays in this or next semester. And we
guarantee that the lecturers will be instructed to hold general lectures which
all can profit from – from first year students via employees, all the
way to the emeriti. The fall schedule is as follows: |
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30/9: 14/10: 28/10: 4/11: 18/11: 2/12: 09/12: |
Trygve
Buanes, IFT "Faster than the light"
Ingunn
Vehus, UoO "The 2011 Nobel Prize:
The accelerating universe"
Ludvig
Muren, rhus University (topic within the field of biophysics)
Helge
Holden, NTNU "Great problems in
mathematics: Solved and unsolved" Cecilia
Jarlskog, Stockholm University, "On
Curie and Rutherford... (TBA)" Kjell
Aleklett, Uppsala University, "Peeking
at Peak Oil in Norway and around the world." Karl W.
Trnroos, Department of Chemistry, UoB "Prohibited phases in solids – Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011" |
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Catering in the vestibule from 14:00. The Seminar Committee also lacks one
member, perhaps a younger representative. If there is somebody who wishes to
participate in this committee, please contact Per Osland and Jan Petter
Hansen and make their day. |
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What can Bergen learn from the Silicon Valley? TO BUSINESSES AND FOUNDERS IN
BERGEN REGION Welcome to the showing of the
movie Something Ventured and NHHÕs anniversary seminar TIME: MONDAY 24. OCTOBER FROM 18:00
– 21:00 Place: Magnus Barfot cinema. Registration. |
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Have
you got some interesting results from a research project? The Best New Ideas from Research in Bergen awards 100 000,- NOK |
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BTO invites
researchers and employees of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty to participate
in BTO/ Sparebanken Vest Idea Competition where the winner will be awarded a
scholarship of 100 000,- NOK. The Idea
Competition is now arranged for the third time, and the scholarship will be
awarded to the best new idea or research result with commercial potential. The
winner can decide himself what he wants to use the scholarship for. á
How to apply? Fill out the form and
send it via e-mail. Application deadline is 17. October. All applications
will be processed in full confidentially. á
Who
can apply? Researchers and employees (including PhD-students and Postdocs) at UoB,
Helse Bergen, Department of Marine Research and H¿yskolen in Bergen. á
The award giving will take place on 17. November
at Bergen Chamber of Commerce Annual Conference. á
Read more information here or contact
BTO at 55 58 30 50, 900 69 645 or by e-mail if you need additional
clarifications. |
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Final
seminar in NANOMAT
October. The
Norwegian Research CouncilÕs programme funding for nanotechnology and new
materials (NANOMAT) has entered its final year. In this respect they are
planning an open seminar with emphasis on results and effects from
NANOMAT-programme. The seminar
is open for all and is arranged on 2. November 2011 at Felix Kino at Aker Brygge in Oslo. Follow
the link for
registration and programe which is constantly
being updated. |
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New lift
for anti-matter research CERN has recently (28.9.2011) adopted the decision
to build a whole new decelerator, ELENA (Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring), to
deliver anti-protons to CERNÕs anti-matter experiments at lower energies than
ever achieved before. ELENA will be installed in the same building which
houses the existing decelerator, AD (Antiproton Decelerator). The plan is
that the first anti-protons from this new ring shall be delivered in 2016 with
one fiftieth part of the energy that AD delivers
today. Thus one hopes to receive an improvement in joint effectiveness up to
10-100 times. This opens up a whole series of new possibilities for international
anti-matter research which includes researchers at
IFT. Both thr groups for atomic physics (Jan Petter Hansen et al.)
and the group for experimental particle physics (Heidi Sandaker et al.) are
involved in this work via the AEgIS experiment which will be built in the
course of the next years for measuring the gravitational constant of
anti-Hydrogen. Activities within the theoretical The figure shows a reconstructed anti-hydrogen event
in the ATHENA detector, the predecessor of the AEgIS experiment. |
Bachelor
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P VEI 2011 for new students What will you become? What is the
goal of your studies? How to reach that goal? What are the relevant things
one should bear in mind throughout the studies? MN-faculty
arranges every fall an informative week called P VEI in order to help students
set clear goals. This is a good opportunity to ask questions and come closer
to the actual answer as to where you are and where you want to go. The main
event takes place on Tuesday 18. October of week 42. See the entire
programme here. |
PhD
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Seminar on
self-chosen topic MSc Abdul
Waheed will hold a seminar on self-chosen topic entitled:
On Monday 17. October 2011 at 13:15 in room 546, IFT. All are welcome to attend! |
IFT in the media
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Per
Osland, Anna Lipniacka, Heidi Sandaker: Hektisk blant
verdens fysikere Forskning.no 10. October á
Thea
K. rrestad: Vis oss
fysikkens skj¿nnhet P H¿yden 12. October á
Per
Osland: Uenige om
n¿ytrino-publisering Forskning.no 13. October |
Publications (ISI)
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á Cheng
Yun; Yan Yu-Liang; Zhou Dai-Mei; Csernai Laszlo P. et al.: Longitudinal fluctuations in the partonic
and hadronic initial state PHYSICAL REVIEW C Volume: 84 Issue: 3 Article Number:
034911 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.84.034911 |